Social Skills Contracts in the South West

Social Skills (Interpersonal, Communication)
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Skills in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Social Skills over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 4 6 4
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +1
Contract jobs citing Social Skills 678 656 718
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 21.41% 18.02% 19.26%
As % of the General category 41.52% 36.46% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 483 474
10th Percentile £200 £200 £207
25th Percentile £413 £375 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £591
90th Percentile £700 £698 £675
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 57 54
10th Percentile £12.15 £17.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £51.19 £38.27
Median hourly rate £28.50 £61.50 £48.62
Median % change year-on-year -53.66% +26.50% +13.06%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.75 £54.96
90th Percentile £57.40 £78.50 £67.46
England median hourly rate £18.13 £25.26 £18.00
% change year-on-year -28.23% +40.33% -

All General Skills
South West

Social Skills is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 1,633 1,799 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 51.56% 49.41% 51.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,324 1,326
10th Percentile £215 £275 £227
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £486
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +11.05% +4.57%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 132 135
10th Percentile £13.69 £17.50 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £39.04 £15.90
Median hourly rate £45.00 £61.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +37.30% +11.25%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.20 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.73 £63.69
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.31 £21.30
% change year-on-year -12.56% +61.08% -5.33%

Social Skills
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Social Skills as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Social Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Social Skills in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Social Skills in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Social Skills in the South West

Social Skills
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Skills within the South West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +4 242 £544 -1.09% 107
Bristol 0 161 £500 +1.27% 329
Gloucestershire +8 107 £540 +35.00% 120
Somerset +13 64 £530 +25.74% 236
Devon -2 50 £425 -8.60% 115
Dorset +1 21 £681 +18.48% 72
Cornwall +2 10 £150 -68.42% 24
Social Skills
England

Social Skills
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 84 (12.39%) Confluence
2 62 (9.14%) SharePoint
3 35 (5.16%) SharePoint Server
4 28 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (1.03%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.88%) CMS
7 4 (0.59%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.59%) nginx
8 3 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 79 (11.65%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (4.57%) Spreadsheet
4 29 (4.28%) Microsoft Project
5 14 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
7 7 (1.03%) MS Visio
8 4 (0.59%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.59%) Photoshop
9 3 (0.44%) PTC Creo
9 3 (0.44%) Windchill
10 1 (0.15%) CATIA
10 1 (0.15%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 18 (2.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.88%) SAP HCM
4 6 (0.88%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.59%) Shopify
5 4 (0.59%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.29%) Primavera
6 2 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.15%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.15%) Magento
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.15%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.15%) SAP CRM
7 1 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.15%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.75%) Azure
2 61 (9.00%) Microsoft 365
3 37 (5.46%) Power Platform
4 34 (5.01%) Azure Stack
5 21 (3.10%) AWS
6 14 (2.06%) Entra ID
7 12 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
8 10 (1.47%) Power Automate
9 7 (1.03%) PowerApps
9 7 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
10 6 (0.88%) GCP
11 5 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
12 4 (0.59%) AWS CloudTrail
12 4 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (0.59%) BigCommerce
12 4 (0.59%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.44%) Amazon Kinesis
13 3 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
13 3 (0.44%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 51 (7.52%) Firewall
2 37 (5.46%) BGP
3 30 (4.42%) DNS
4 23 (3.39%) LAN
5 22 (3.24%) DHCP
6 20 (2.95%) WAN
7 16 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (2.06%) TCP/IP
9 10 (1.47%) MPLS
9 10 (1.47%) Network Security
9 10 (1.47%) SAN
9 10 (1.47%) VSAN
10 9 (1.33%) Skype
11 8 (1.18%) VPN
12 5 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
12 5 (0.74%) VoIP
13 4 (0.59%) HTTPS
13 4 (0.59%) IPsec
14 3 (0.44%) Intranet
14 3 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (3.39%) Power BI
2 17 (2.51%) SQL Server
3 7 (1.03%) MySQL
4 6 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.59%) Couchbase
6 3 (0.44%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (0.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.44%) Metadata
7 2 (0.29%) OLAP
7 2 (0.29%) OLTP
7 2 (0.29%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.15%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.15%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.15%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.15%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.15%) Parquet
8 1 (0.15%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 123 (18.14%) JIRA
2 28 (4.13%) Bitbucket
3 25 (3.69%) Jenkins
4 23 (3.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (1.18%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.44%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.29%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.29%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.29%) HP UFT
7 2 (0.29%) JUnit
7 2 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.29%) Selenium
7 2 (0.29%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.15%) Git
8 1 (0.15%) MSI
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle APEX
General
1 160 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
2 110 (16.22%) Finance
3 72 (10.62%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
5 45 (6.64%) Telecoms
6 41 (6.05%) Organisational Skills
7 35 (5.16%) Manufacturing
8 34 (5.01%) Aerospace
9 23 (3.39%) Military
10 21 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.10%) Legal
11 19 (2.80%) Marketing
12 15 (2.21%) Electronics
13 13 (1.92%) Retail
14 8 (1.18%) Banking
14 8 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 8 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.18%) Police
15 7 (1.03%) Law
16 6 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 101 (14.90%) Analyst
2 72 (10.62%) Lead
3 59 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 55 (8.11%) Architect
5 35 (5.16%) Developer
6 32 (4.72%) Support Engineer
7 31 (4.57%) Senior
8 26 (3.83%) Consultant
9 25 (3.69%) Author
10 24 (3.54%) IT Support
10 24 (3.54%) Technical Author
11 23 (3.39%) Microsoft Engineer
12 22 (3.24%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
13 20 (2.95%) Cyber Threat Analyst
13 20 (2.95%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
13 20 (2.95%) Project Leader
14 19 (2.80%) Technical Support
15 18 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
16 17 (2.51%) Technical Architect
17 16 (2.36%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.83%) .NET
2 25 (3.69%) .NET Core
3 16 (2.36%) XML
4 6 (0.88%) Flash
4 6 (0.88%) JSON
5 5 (0.74%) SailPoint
5 5 (0.74%) YAML
6 4 (0.59%) LEMP Stack
6 4 (0.59%) Middleware
6 4 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (0.44%) CSS
7 3 (0.44%) HTML
7 3 (0.44%) RESTful
7 3 (0.44%) SPFx
7 3 (0.44%) VML
8 2 (0.29%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.29%) Laravel
8 2 (0.29%) Node.js
8 2 (0.29%) PySpark
8 2 (0.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.88%) Management Information System
2 48 (7.08%) Cyber Threat
3 37 (5.46%) Cyber Defence
4 35 (5.16%) Private Cloud
5 29 (4.28%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 24 (3.54%) Data Centre
7 23 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 17 (2.51%) Clustering
10 14 (2.06%) PKI
11 12 (1.77%) CMDB
12 11 (1.62%) Security Operations Centre
13 9 (1.33%) Product Ownership
14 8 (1.18%) Client/Server
14 8 (1.18%) Cloud Native
14 8 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 8 (1.18%) Security Posture
15 7 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 6 (0.88%) Driving Licence
17 5 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 134 (19.76%) Windows
2 51 (7.52%) Linux
3 26 (3.83%) Windows 10
4 23 (3.39%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.92%) Mac OS
6 11 (1.62%) Unix
7 10 (1.47%) Windows 7
8 8 (1.18%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (0.74%) Android
10 4 (0.59%) CentOS
11 3 (0.44%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.29%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.15%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (28.61%) Problem-Solving
2 143 (21.09%) Agile
3 120 (17.70%) Project Management
4 114 (16.81%) ITIL
5 96 (14.16%) Stakeholder Management
6 88 (12.98%) Service Management
7 87 (12.83%) Cybersecurity
8 79 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 72 (10.62%) Project Delivery
10 67 (9.88%) SIEM
11 63 (9.29%) Decision-Making
12 62 (9.14%) ITSM
13 55 (8.11%) SOAR
14 54 (7.96%) Capacity Management
14 54 (7.96%) PRINCE2
15 49 (7.23%) Customer Service
15 49 (7.23%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
15 49 (7.23%) Mentoring
15 49 (7.23%) Threat Intelligence
16 47 (6.93%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.78%) PowerShell
2 41 (6.05%) Python
3 26 (3.83%) SQL
4 13 (1.92%) JavaScript
5 8 (1.18%) C#
6 7 (1.03%) PHP
7 5 (0.74%) Bash
7 5 (0.74%) C
8 4 (0.59%) C++
9 3 (0.44%) Java
10 2 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.29%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.29%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.29%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 348 (51.33%) Security Cleared
2 180 (26.55%) SC Cleared
3 160 (23.60%) DV Cleared
4 92 (13.57%) Degree
5 22 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 20 (2.95%) APMP
7 19 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 16 (2.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 15 (2.21%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (1.77%) CISSP
10 12 (1.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 12 (1.77%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.47%) MCSE
12 9 (1.33%) CISM
13 8 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (1.18%) HNC
13 8 (1.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (1.03%) CCNA
15 6 (0.88%) MCSA
16 5 (0.74%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.93%) NIST
2 45 (6.64%) PMO
3 35 (5.16%) Government Security Classifications
4 31 (4.57%) NIST 800
4 31 (4.57%) QA
5 19 (2.80%) SLA
6 13 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (1.47%) GDPR
8 7 (1.03%) Accessibility
9 6 (0.88%) NCSC
10 5 (0.74%) Data Quality
10 5 (0.74%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.59%) GMP
11 4 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.44%) GRC
13 1 (0.15%) RMADS
13 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 66 (9.73%) Active Directory
2 36 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (2.51%) VMware NSX
4 16 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.77%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (1.18%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (1.03%) Docker
8 6 (0.88%) vSphere
9 4 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.29%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 33 (4.87%) SCCM
2 31 (4.57%) Ansible
3 27 (3.98%) SCOM
4 23 (3.39%) PowerCLI
5 21 (3.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (2.21%) Terraform
7 12 (1.77%) vCenter Server
8 9 (1.33%) Kubernetes
9 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Clustering
9 8 (1.18%) Nagios
9 8 (1.18%) NetBackup
10 4 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.59%) Trend Micro Deep Security
11 3 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.29%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.29%) MOM
12 2 (0.29%) OPNET
12 2 (0.29%) Puppet
12 2 (0.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 258 (38.05%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.80%) Atlassian
3 41 (6.05%) VMware
4 40 (5.90%) SAP
5 28 (4.13%) Dell
6 25 (3.69%) HP
7 21 (3.10%) Cisco
8 20 (2.95%) Remedy
9 15 (2.21%) Adobe
10 13 (1.92%) Splunk
11 10 (1.47%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.33%) Hitachi
12 9 (1.33%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.18%) NetApp
14 7 (1.03%) Google
14 7 (1.03%) Juniper
15 6 (0.88%) Citrix
15 6 (0.88%) IBM
15 6 (0.88%) Nokia
16 5 (0.74%) Oracle